Bob Holman Poems

Go ahead
Open the door
Hello white water
Hello there bridge
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Before the Beginning of Time
When you could rhyme Sublime with Sublime
Because Because was a gag
In the mouth, a laughing flag
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No lights! No city!
You've got to start nowhere
I'll take it, just to give it back
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Who cares
Why bother
How come
What possible difference
Could it make
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I am standing in the doorway.
I have put my suitcase down.
You are staring at me strangely
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You no think me
You no love me
This old custom
Break heart
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All day to watch this petal fall
Two to one it doesn´t
It doesn´t
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for Danny O´Neil

How I love
To stand
In the driving rain
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Now you´re giving wine to the horse!
Why did I ever ask you for directions?
You ask me why I asked you?
Who´s the guide around here anyway?
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